tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post85700781553305447..comments2020-06-06T08:22:25.001-07:00Comments on Big Blue 1840-1940: HatayJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-14262762657238789832019-04-16T07:26:32.262-07:002019-04-16T07:26:32.262-07:00Well, no. Many forgeries were made for the packet ...Well, no. Many forgeries were made for the packet trade. What the forger lost with CV, they made up with volume.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-87635690320083767762019-04-16T02:58:42.801-07:002019-04-16T02:58:42.801-07:00# AnonymousSeptember 13, 2012 at 3:21 AM
# JimSept...# AnonymousSeptember 13, 2012 at 3:21 AM<br /># JimSeptember 13, 2012 at 7:42 AM<br /><br />No forger worth his salt would be interested in counterfeiting <br />these worthless [ NOT for us philatelists, mind you !] issues <br />since the *RETURNS would hardly be remunerative.<br /><br />For the same amount of work, he might as well fake the issues <br />that command 3-figure / 4-figure values.<br /><br />Makes sense, does it not ?Sanjeev Suri from INDIAhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06767349756407906120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-28764814618920169932012-09-30T17:15:40.850-07:002012-09-30T17:15:40.850-07:00As luck would have, I attended a concert today in ...As luck would have, I attended a concert today in Mexico City with the music of John Williams and the theme music of....Indiana Jones. ;-)Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-10544439658720033802012-09-29T14:16:55.387-07:002012-09-29T14:16:55.387-07:00Indiana Jones visited Hatay in &quot;Indiana Jones...Indiana Jones visited Hatay in &quot;Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade&quot; :)BeeSeehttp://brcstamps.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-24930470624221501262012-09-13T07:42:22.345-07:002012-09-13T07:42:22.345-07:00That is my assumption. ;-)
The surcharged Hatay d...That is my assumption. ;-)<br /><br />The surcharged Hatay does not have a high CV. The Turkish forgeries reported are for an earlier era. And there is no mention in Scott.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-84073974251060219932012-09-13T03:21:48.604-07:002012-09-13T03:21:48.604-07:00Any sense of how frequently fake overprints of Tur...Any sense of how frequently fake overprints of Turkish stamps appear in the Hatay material on the market? Scott has no warning about counterfeits. Can one assume that most of the mint overprinted Hatay on the market are genuine?<br /><br />DennisAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-43565139544356722022012-09-11T16:18:38.374-07:002012-09-11T16:18:38.374-07:00Stamps-those little tangible pieces of history- re...Stamps-those little tangible pieces of history- reflect man&#39;s humanity-and inhumanity- to man.<br /><br />I find stamps attractive even when they reflect the underlying ugliness of the history. Think Germany during 1936-1945, or Stalin&#39;s Russia.<br /><br />And no one peoples have the monopoly on execrable behavior.<br />Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02024632082262694589noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6190925726844102948.post-77952180158782805222012-09-11T15:38:45.055-07:002012-09-11T15:38:45.055-07:00I&#39;d say the history disgusts me rather than wh...I&#39;d say the history disgusts me rather than whets my appetite for Hatay stamps. Antioch was the ancient, ancient capital of West Syria.<br /><br />Forty centuries, indeed!<br /><br />The Turks arrived in the Near East only in the 900s. After they conquered and slowly drove out the Christian Greeks from Asia Minor (the Attaturk Turks are the ones who systematically completed this slow process, during the 1930s-1960s), then committed genocide against the Armenian Christians, then took half of Cyprus, and now this . . . (which I did not know about until reading your blog entry, for which I thank you), . . . and then the present Turkish government is spending megabucks at my university (and elsewhere, I presume) with glossy magazines, dinners, lectures etc., to present Turkey as the great enlightened future of the world, well, I&#39;ve just had my fill of Turkish B.S.<br /><br />But I must say that you&#39;ve helped me immensely with this entry. I knew that ancient Antioch was in present-day Turkey but never knew why. I&#39;d tell my students (when I teach ancient history) about this great city, one of the four great cities of the Ancient Mediterranean--Carthage, Rome, Alexandria and Antioch--and tell them to find it on the map of Turkey. It always had seemed so odd that Antioch,sitting below the Tarsus Mountains and geographically just not fitting, should be part of Turkey.<br /><br />Now I know why.<br /><br />And, yes, the stamps are interesting :-) So maybe I&#39;ll have to pursue some, since my main interest in collection worldwide is to create a miniature snapshot of the world and its history at the time I was born, before the colonial empires all disintegrated and 1968 revolutions changed everything else.<br /><br />Dennis<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com